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‘Ban NEET’: DMK launches signature campaign, CM MK Stalin makes first sign

Shreyansh Raghuvanshi — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 19:28:31 +0000

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son and Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday launched a campaign to obtain 50 lakh signatures in 50 days to shut the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for medical aspirants.

In a social media post on X, Junior Stalin wrote: “The massive signature movement launched today. Hon’ble Chief Minister was the first representative of Tamil Nadu to sign the sentiment of our people. Thanks to him. Let’s take part in this massive signature movement to abolish NEET to create a NEET-free Tamil Nadu – protect the right to education of Tamil Nadu students.”

'நீட் விலக்கு நம் இலக்கு' என்னும் மாபெரும் கையெழுத்து இயக்கம், @dmk_youthwing – @dmk_studentwing – @MedicalwingDMK சார்பில் இன்று தொடங்கப்பட்டுள்ள நிலையில், தமிழ்நாட்டின் முதல் பிரதிநிதியாக, நம் மக்களின் உணர்வை வெளிப்படுத்துகிற வகையில் முதல் கையெழுத்திட்ட மாண்புமிகு முதலமைச்சர்… pic.twitter.com/VZccXNZfjR

— Udhay – தமிழ்நாட்டை தலைகுனிய விடமாட்டேன் (@Udhaystalin) October 21, 2023

The DMK leader used an egg as his prop to support his point with ‘NEET’ written on it with a red marker. The Egg here symbolizes ‘Zero’, commonly known as muttai in the local language.

“At the inaugural event of this signature movement, we addressed the atrocities of those who imposed NEET on the grounds of ‘merit – quality’ and today say ‘0’ percentile in NEET PG exam is enough. In order to urge the President to give approval to the NEET Exemption Bill, we will go around to every nook and cranny of Tamilnadu’s colleges, schools, towns and streets and collect the signatures of the people of Tamilnadu,” said Udhayanidhi Stalin.

ஒட்டுமொத்த தமிழ்நாடே நிராகரிக்கும் நீட் என்னும் அநீதியை ஒழிக்க, @dmk_youthwing –@dmk_studentwing – @MedicalwingDMK முன்னெடுக்கும் மாபெரும் கையெழுத்து இயக்கத்தை இன்று தொடங்கி வைத்துள்ளோம். தமிழ்நாட்டின் முதலமைச்சர் அவர்கள் முதல் கையெழுத்தினை இட்டு நமக்கு ஊக்கம் தந்துள்ளார்கள்.… pic.twitter.com/8kEU2m49vJ

— Udhay – தமிழ்நாட்டை தலைகுனிய விடமாட்டேன் (@Udhaystalin) October 21, 2023

“We request all party friends, public from all parties, to participate in this signature drive to express their opinion against NEET exam,” added Udhayanidhi Stalin.

After signing the petition against NEET exam, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin said that “NEET expulsion is our only goal”.

NEET UG and PG counselling 21-2022 to be held in four rounds

News Desk — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:51:11 +0000

Medical Counselling Committee of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India has decided to conduct the counselling for 15 per cent UG and 50 per cent seats for all India quota for the current academic year 2021-2022 onwards.

All the four rounds for NEET – Undergraduate and Post Graduate have been approved by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and the Govt. of India issued from time to time. The proposed round will be held online with the prevailing norms of the COVID-19 outbreak and this should be followed by the participating central Institutes/Universities.

The Key Features of the scheme are:

There will be 04 rounds of Online Counselling i.e AIQ Round 1, AIQ Round 2, AIQ Mop-up Round and AIQ Stray Vacancy Round and fresh registrations will be allowed in these rounds except in the AIQ Stray Vacancy round.
The seats which were earlier reverted to respective states after the completion of Round 2 will continue to be filled in by the respective authorities in online mode.
There will be an option for candidates to upgrade and exit only in round 1 of the AIQ counselling while there will not be an option of up-gradation to Mop-up round from round 2.
Candidates who have joined the further round of counselling will not be allowed to resign and will also be ineligible to take part in further rounds.
Candidates who have not joined the allotted seats in round 2 will be allowed to exit freely from the counselling.

NEET-UG 2021 to be held in September, will be conducted in 13 languages

Vaibhav Agrawal — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 05:14:20 +0000

In an announcement made on Tuesday by the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the medical entrance exam in NEET-UG shall be conducted in nearly 13 languages, including Punjabi and Malayalam, for the first time. To felicitate the Indian students in the middle east, a new examination center has been established in Kuwait for the NEET in a milestone, Pradhan added, as per a report released by the Republic world.

To ease the opportunities for each of the respective states, the examinations shall be conducted mainly in several diverse languages. The mentioned 13 languages include Assamese, Punjabi, Odiya, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu as well as English. The Union Education Ministry announced that the cities where the medical examination shall be held will also be increased from 155 to 198, while plans were also there for increasing the number of examination halls from 3,862 in the previous year.

Which strict precautions adherence due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NEET exam, which was initially scheduled for 1st August was deferred to 13th September, as announced by the Union Education Minister through his Twitter handle on Monday and the application process for the same was commenced on 13th July 5 p.m.

Registrations for the NEET(UG) 2021 has started on https://t.co/OdWUKVfCC2 from 5:00 pm today. For the first time in the history of NEET(UG) exam and in order to facilitate the Indian student community in the middle east, an examination centre has been opened in Kuwait.

— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) July 13, 2021

It was decided to ramp up the number of cities for the conduction of the examination by 43, to 198 from the previous 155 by the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as announced by him earlier yesterday mentioning that it was obligated to maintain physical distancing at centers.

NEET(UG) application forms out, check out all details here

Bhomik Mathur — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:41:30 +0000

Students can now apply to appear for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) as the application forms have been released on Tuesday, June 13. To apply, candidates must visit the website ntaneet.nic.in. The forms were supposed to open from 5:00 PM but the website of the National Testing Agency(NTA) suffered various technical glitches with students complaining of the website being slow or showing an error.

Applications for appearing in the NEET exam would remain open till 11:50 PM on August 6. Students would be required to make the fee payment by 11:50 PM on August 7. The NTA will also allow candidates to edit the details submitted by them between 8-12 August. The admit card would be issued 3 days before the exam is conducted.

The NEET(UG) exam for the year 2021 has been postponed from the scheduled date of August 1 and will now be conducted on September 12, as announced by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday. He informed that the medical entrance exam would be held in physical mode and assured that COVID-19 protocols would be followed through staggered time slots during entry and exit, contactless registration, proper sanitisation, seating with social distancing etc.

The NEET (UG) 2021 will be held on 12th September 2021 across the country following COVID-19 protocols. The application process will begin from 5 pm tomorrow through the NTA website(s).

— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) July 12, 2021

This year, the NEET exam will be conducted in a total of 9 languages apart from English and Hindi- Assamese, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi, Odia, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Students will need to indicate their language preferences while filling the application form.

In order to maintain social distancing, the medical exam would be conducted in 198 cities, an increase from 155 cities last year. The number of examination centres will also be increased.

JEE Main 2021 will be commenced from 20-25 July its third session and 27th July to 2 Aug its fourth session

Nishita Sharma — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:25:44 +0000

On Tuesday, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal addressed students about JEE 2021 dates and other details. The education ministry was planning to announce its decision on the JEE 2021 and NEET 2021 exams.

While addressing the students Ramesh Pokhriyal said that “JEE Main third session will be held from July 20 to 25 and the fourth session which was earlier scheduled to be held in May will be held from July 27 to August 2.”

Ramesh also announced that the decision will go live with important JEE Main information on his Twitter handle. He tweeted that, “Dear students, the moment you had been waiting for a long time is here. Today, at 7:00 pm, I will make you all aware of the information related to the 3rd and 4th stage examination of #JEE.”

प्रिय छात्र-छात्राओं,
जिसकी आप सभी को लम्बे समय से प्रतीक्षा थी, मैं आज शाम 7:00 बजे आप सभी को #JEE की तीसरे और चौथे चरण की परीक्षा से सम्बंधित सूचनाओं से अवगत करवाउँगा ।

Stay Tuned !@DDNewslive @PIB_India @MIB_India @DG_NTA @EduMinOfIndia @mygovindia

— Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (@DrRPNishank) July 6, 2021

The NEET-UG 2021 date has been scheduled for August 1 but as of now, it is likely to be changed after the review.

According to the reports of PTI, the Ministry of Education said it was thinking about whether to conduct the pending sessions of JEE Mains in July and August or not and whether the medical entrance exam NEET can be shifted to September or not.

As per the source reported by PTI in June, it Quoted that, “The pending editions of JEE Mains are likely to be conducted either at the end of July or August with a fortnight’s gap between the two tests. NEET is likely to be pushed to September.”

NEET (UG) exam centers cannot be overseas, NTA tells Supreme Court

News Desk — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:39:27 +0000

Regarding the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET) Undergraduate (UG) 2020 examination, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has told the Supreme Court that conducting the exam overseas is not possible. Their affidavit filed on 11 August, stated that the exam needs to be conducted in a single shift at the same time on the same day to maintain uniformity. Further, the mode of the exam is a paper book format. Hence for the aforementioned reasons, overseas centres will not be feasible.

“Further, the question papers and other exam materials are to be transported from NTA headquarters to a large number of examination centres in various cities, which would require meticulous planning for safe and secure delivery of the same at the examination centres on time”, the affidavit stated.

The statement of the NTA comes after due consultation with the Medical Council of India (MCI). The MCI also clarified from its end that as the exam is conducted through Multiple Choice Questions in paper book format given to all candidates and, uniformity has to be maintained for all, therefore, NEET (UG) cannot be conducted in online mode for candidates abroad.

The affidavit also explained that while for JEE (Main) the question papers can be delivered to the examination centres half an hour before the examination in password-protected online mode, the same cannot be expected for NEET (UG).

Scheduled on 13 September 2020, the affidavit of the NTA was filed on a plea seeking directions to hold NEET centres in Gulf countries.

The plea, which was first dismissed by the Kerala High Court on June 30, was filed by parents of nearly 4,000 NEET (undergraduate) candidates. The plea wished for a postponement of the exam until the COVID-19 pandemic normalizes.

The parents of these candidates appealed against the High Court order in the Supreme court. The general secretary of Kerala Muslim Culture Centre in Qatar, Abdul Azeez said that the NTA had the capability and willingness to open exam centres in Gulf countries as they had been doing so for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (Main).

The petition contended that the NTA has said it would open examination centres abroad only if the MCI approved the proposal.

The MCI, in its communication dated May 21, said that the online test for NEET is not possible, the plea in apex court stated.

“During these exceptional circumstances, the MCI and the Union government need to be flexible so as to facilitate these students to sit for NEET”, the plea said.

It said most students had registered with Indian embassies in Qatar, Oman, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia to travel to India on Vande Bharat mission flights and appear in the examination for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges, but they could not get seats on the flights as priority was given to other categories of passengers stuck abroad.